First. Yes I will continue to work with my doctor to track down what is causing my current symptoms. I just know many here have experience with heart issues.
Maybe a month ago I went to my doctor as I’d been having some off and on chest discomfort. It was always short lived (like a few seconds and no longer than a minute if that) it was from center of chest to left side. Occasionally it would be a brief sharp pain. Many times just an ache. No shortness of breath. No heart racing or anything. No issue breathing deeply. Doing all my workouts without issue. But the minute the ache extend into my left arm on one occasion I went to my doctor. She did an ekg. Nothing concerning. Just 1st degree av block which doesn’t sound unusual. She referred me to cardiologist. Another ekg and echo stress test. Nothing to worry about as far as cardiologist is concerned. So after that I did a big race with no issues but I still felt slightly off. Not during the rest just outside of that.
Since the race I took a week off of any training. I’d say I feel slightly better. One thing I’ve noticed is that sometimes when I’m lying down or just more slumped down on the couch I’ll have some slight feeling of shortness of breath. But it’s still pretty minor.
Is it possible this is just a mild case of pericarditis? Or are symptoms usually more noticeable. Is it something that the cardiologist could have missed on the echocardiogram if he wasn’t looking for it or if it was so mild? It’s just something that feels off but to everybody else I appear completely fine. But to me I just feel slightly off.
Maybe a month ago I went to my doctor as I’d been having some off and on chest discomfort. It was always short lived (like a few seconds and no longer than a minute if that) it was from center of chest to left side. Occasionally it would be a brief sharp pain. Many times just an ache. No shortness of breath. No heart racing or anything. No issue breathing deeply. Doing all my workouts without issue. But the minute the ache extend into my left arm on one occasion I went to my doctor. She did an ekg. Nothing concerning. Just 1st degree av block which doesn’t sound unusual. She referred me to cardiologist. Another ekg and echo stress test. Nothing to worry about as far as cardiologist is concerned. So after that I did a big race with no issues but I still felt slightly off. Not during the rest just outside of that.
Since the race I took a week off of any training. I’d say I feel slightly better. One thing I’ve noticed is that sometimes when I’m lying down or just more slumped down on the couch I’ll have some slight feeling of shortness of breath. But it’s still pretty minor.
Is it possible this is just a mild case of pericarditis? Or are symptoms usually more noticeable. Is it something that the cardiologist could have missed on the echocardiogram if he wasn’t looking for it or if it was so mild? It’s just something that feels off but to everybody else I appear completely fine. But to me I just feel slightly off.